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What we read matters#

What you read is important, and where you read it is also important.#

The internet has completely changed reading, but it has brought not a utopia, but a mess.

Today, the main places we read online are noisy and full of pressure, and they are also squeezing our thoughts to get advertising fees. There are some excellent reading products, but they are niche products, and since the demise of Google Reader, tech giants seem to have lost interest in creating these products.

Instead, we can only face pop-up windows and media economy dominated by social media, which makes us both angry and foolish.

Its powerful network tools can still create amazing shared reading experiences, and its viral power can spread memes globally.

The trick is to combine these elements with the economic system, incentivizing high-quality participation rather than superficial participation, and incentivizing trustworthy connections rather than tribal tantrums. No one can fully master this art.

However, the internet still brings great hope for readers. It democratizes the channels for accessing news, information, and culture, allowing anyone, anywhere, to appreciate works that were previously only accessible to privileged classes, and this is still true.

So, we need to remain vigilant and disciplined in this chaotic digital world. In the ocean of information, it becomes crucial to filter out valuable content. By cultivating good reading habits and choosing reliable sources of information, we can better cope with the challenge of information overload, making the internet a tool for acquiring knowledge rather than a source of chaos.